Loving the Marvin Gaye reference in the title.

Thanks for sharing. I hope it saves others from making a similar mistake. I know I probably would have done just what you did.

I think everyone who has made a comment here is correct based on our definition. Though my article covered an example of a user implementing a technology outside IT's jurisdiction, an implementation could have just as well been someone extremely technical brought in to do IT work like Scott mentions. That scenario never crossed my mind when I wrote the article, so thanks for that, @scottalanmiller. I guess maybe that sort of thing is not as common in smaller departments like where I've worked.

True lesson in this story is do not work on a production system with changes that could take it out of service when time is critical. Better to say, "Next time you have a long meeting at the end of a Friday, let me take a look at your computer."

@whizzard said in Adventures in Graceful VM Shutdown:

How does the licensing work with multiple UPS?

The answer is...it depends. If you want OpMonis to monitor multiple UPS devices and shutdown things gracefully, it can do that using a single license but will only allow one shutdown list and would begin shutting down things as soon as your predefined threshold is hit for any one of the monitored UPS devices.

The other option is to get a second license of OpMonis to monitor the second UPS and have a dedicated shutdown list just for that UPS and its connected equipment.

@dafyre said in The Day The Internet Broke:

@travisdh1 said in The Day The Internet Broke:

Just one of many reasons I'm glad we use Mint/CentOS wherever possible. The security risks aren't any less, but they are different. Different in a way that's easier for me to prevent against bad actors.

At least you understand that running other OSes than Windows is not the panacea that a lot of people think it is.

For sure. Nothing like comparing ls to what is in a repository to find it's been replaced by a rootkit. Yep, I've seen this happen before.

Old post but just had to do this for an implementation we are rolling out. Thanks!